It is a very risky procedure but if your highly careful you may be able to do this. It is possible to place your headlights in the oven at a low (250?) temp and warm up the 'goop' that holds the lens onto the reflector housing to pull the lens off. then you could clean and remove the chrome paint and possibly respray the reflector dishes. The reason I had pulled my lenses out was simply cause I wanted to paint the chrome outer ring black.. It doesn't sacrifice any light projection but it gives the headlights a JDM look. But as I said, I'm not responsible for you melting your headlights if you do, lol! It's a tricky job but with patience it can be done. If you look at my headlights, you'll notice they are darker than most. There was another guy on here that had the same success as me doing the JDM black mod I cam up with. see the link on my footnote.